“Rosa Parks is the beacon of light: If you say no to something, you can change the world,” Michael Boldin, founder of the Tenth Amendment Center, which favors states’ rights, told POLITICO.

“Isn’t that what it’s supposed to be, ‘We, the people’?” he added. “Over the past few years, you’ve seen this growing. … People are getting sick and tired of federal power.

Following up on another report on the nullification movement in the Associated Press last month, this article signals that the movement has grown to the point that, while such reports aren’t yet common, we can’t be ignored anymore.

Drudge Report took notice as well, highlighting the Politico article top-center on Saturday:

Why? Because a lot of new people – and I mean a lot – are learning about the nullification movement from these reports. This can only fuel our work. Because the more they hear about it, the more likely it is that people will take action to support it. The more steps people take to nullify, the more we’ll see successes on a state and local level. And the more that happens, the more the mainstream will have to report on it.

From there, the cycle repeats.

CAMPAIGN FOR LIBERTY

Just minutes earlier on Saturday, John Tate, President of Campaign for Liberty, sent out an email to what could be as many as hundreds of thousands of supporters and activists to highlight the importance of state-level activism:

(Campaign for Liberty State Leaders) are the ones leading the fight for liberty in your neighborhoods and state capitals.

Tate shared a number of success stories, noting that state-level pressure can bring in great results for liberty. This is a very welcome development from a large, national organization that has primarily focused its efforts on trying to organize in support of national-level campaigns.

I know C4L has encouraged state-level activism in the past, but I can tell you that the last 6 months or so have seen more direct involvement from their state chapters in specific nullification efforts that TAC has spearheaded than in any year since either organization was formed.

This is an incredibly good thing.

Earlier this month, when Tom Woods released a video that said the Tenth Amendment Center has “done more than anyone in the world to promote the venerable Jeffersonian idea of nullification,” I was incredibly honored to get that kind of support from the #1 expert on nullification, the guy who literally wrote the book on Nullification.

But, doing more for nullification than anyone in the world isn’t enough in the big picture.

Because this movement is about liberty, and not just the success of a single organization, we need more. The Tenth Amendment Center cannot continue to be the lone voice leading the effort to nullify. It’s going to take other organizations grabbing the baton and running with it.

Over the years, I’ve made a number of attempts to build a working relationship with C4L. While the people I’ve communicated with at their national office have generally been courteous to me, I’m sure their focus has been Paul campaigns, and connecting with us to tag-team state and local efforts didn’t fit their strategy at the time.

But this email from Tate, plus the surge of interest from state leaders this past legislative session, gives me hope. And even if nullification never becomes official national strategy for Campaign for Liberty, we’ll keep doing everything we can to continue leading the charge to resist federal power in the states. And we’ll do everything we can to provide their state leaders with all the education, tools, and information they need to be the muscle the nullification movement needs to get to the next level.

There are so many inspirational leaders throughout history who understood the great importance of each step forward against what others would consider to be an immovable obstacle.

Mother Theresa said, “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

Martin Luther King Jr. said: “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

And John Dickinson, the founding father known as the “penman of the revolution,” may have put it best: “Concordia res parvae crescunt.” That’s a Latin phrase which means “small things grow great by concord.”

The fact that the Tenth Amendment Center is working so hard, with so little, to me, is the good news. The latest news that people and States are waking up is some pretty tasty icing on the the 10thAC cake.

Keep up the good work because, we all know, the hijacked US gov. will back up & take another run on oppression & tyranny.

Way to go Michael, if you’ve got the admiration of Tom Woods. You’re doing something right! I have immense respect for guys like Tom and Kevin Gutzman. Congrats man, that’s an awesome endorsement. Soak it up, (but not for too long)!

Do it to it, people!
After months of searching for the best way for me to make my efforts effective, my research has led me to believe that there are only two thing that will lead us back to true freedom- re-instilling virtue in the people AND nullifying the oppressors on every level. I am starting with myself in both areas, then my family, then community, etc. If there are more examples of success to duplicate, even the fence-sitters can take courage.
There is such a great victorious feeling I get when I read about Kansas and Missouri standing up to the feds on the 2nd amendment, or states refusing to be lured by tainted Medicaide money so they can be free from the strings. I cheer when I read about local sheriffs refusing to allow the feds to sell their unconstitutional wares in their counties.
It warms my heart to track all of these efforts here on the 10AC site. Thank you for all that you do! Keep up the videos- I am steering people your way!

Hello Mike, this is excellent!! You and the Tenth Amendment Center certainly have my back. I have been telling my friends about your organization and efforts to help us restore our constitutional republic back to what our Founding Fathers intended. Larry